“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. — the 'co-crucifixion' (sunestaurōthesan) means Paul's ego-centered existence has been executed; Christ's resurrection life now inhabits and animates Paul's bodily existence, a theosis-like intimacy where Christ's love ('agapē') and self-gift find their only adequate response in Paul's faith ('pistis').
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